A Review on Recent Developments in Fully Polarimetric SAR Image Despeckling

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 743-758

  Ma, Xiaoshuang ^a   Wu, Penghai ^a   Wu, Yanlan ^a   Shen, Huanfeng ^b  

^a ANHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Nonlocal means (NLM); polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR); speckle filtering; Wishart distribution

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; COVARIANCE MATRIX; DATA STRUCTURES; IMAGE DENOISING; POLARIMETERS; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; SPECKLE;

COVARIANCE MATRICES; MARKET RESEARCHES; NON LOCAL MEANS (NLM); POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; RADAR POLARIMETRY; SPECKLE FILTERING; WISHART DISTRIBUTION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; POLARIZATION; RADAR IMAGERY; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 85034227020     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2017.2768059     Document Type: Review

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